I now beg leave to add to my former letters to your Lordship, that I have not the smallest doubt that the Cutter will sail when ready, which may be in about a week hence, & accompanied by the Lugger, unless orders come from Versailles in the interim to prevent it.

I take the liberty of observing to your Lordship, that in case it should be judged proper to send any vessels on this Coast to watch their motions, that they ought to be of superior force to Sloops& Cutters that have been here as yet, as well as the best going vessels, for both the Cutter & Lugger are considered as prime Sailors, and will be manned by a Set of most daring and desperate men, almost entirely English & Irish outlawed Smugglers, for the Americans amongst them do not exceed eight or ten, altho' all Cuningham's Crew, excepting one Man* from Ipswich, swore at the Admiralty, that they were Natives of America. — I have some hopes of not only detaching this Man from Cuningham's Crew but of engaging him to enter into The King's Service. If I succeed I will send him by the first opportunity to England, & recommended to Your Lordships Office.

* Anthony Lulpitt